It´s never good to get an email from home saying to call immediately, there´s been an emergency.

My dad was in the middle of his radio show yesterday and put the microphone down and asked my mom to take him to the hospital, where they did some tests and found that he has heart disease and had a tear in his aorta and he needed emergency open heart surgery.

And then the call at 4am that started with “Which do you want first, the good news or the bad news,” it just doesn´t get better.  Very gladly, my dad made it through surgery and the surgery was successful.  I was so relieved and glad to hear the good news that I didn´t even think there could be any bad news. 

But then I found out my aunt died.  Right at the same time my dad was going in to the hospital.  A heart attack.

Please keep my family in your thoughts - many of you may have seen by now that my dad is a frequent commentor on here and reads regularly.  Please also think of my mom and brothers and the rest of my family who are dealing with my dad being in major surgery and at the same time mourning the loss of my aunt, a very wonderful woman who I am regretting not talking to more often.  She leaves behind my uncle and their two children who are just 16 and 19. 

I wish I could be there with everyone so badly right now.